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Word: lumbered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lumber, production has been pacing sales for some time, is now off 13% from the year end peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bull Fever, Bear Facts | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Soviet Union's pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the pioneering U. S. 100 years ago. Since 1932 the U. S. S. R. has systematically explored its northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Saga of the Sedov | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Solvents' plant at Peoria, Ill, every ten days or so this year, for some $200,000. But the ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued against trainload rates. Biggest squawk may come from roads which fear barge competition less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trainload Lots | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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